Amendment to Executive Order No. 12873

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Title 3--
The President

Executive Order 12995 of March 25, 1996

Amendment to Executive Order No. 12873

By the authority vested in me as President by the
Constitution and the laws of the United States of
America, and in order to assist paper mills in their
procurement of recovered materials to use as raw
materials, it is hereby ordered that Executive Order
No. 12873 is amended as follows:

Section 1. Section 504(a) of Executive Order No. 12873
shall read: ``(a) For high speed copier paper, offset
paper, forms bond, computer printout paper, carbonless
paper, file folders, white woven envelopes and for
other uncoated printing and writing paper, such as
writing and office paper, book paper, cotton fiber
paper, and cover stock, the minimum content standard
shall be no less than 20 percent postconsumer materials
beginning December 31, 1994. This minimum content
standard shall be increased to 30 percent beginning on
December 31, 1998.''

Sec. 2. Section 504(b) of Executive Order No. 12873
shall be deleted and section 504(c) of that order shall
be redesignated as section 504(b) and shall read: ``(b)
As an alternative to meeting the standards in section
504(a), for all printing and writing papers, the
minimum content standard shall be no less than 50
percent recovered materials that are a waste material
byproduct of a finished product other than a paper or
textile product which would otherwise be disposed of in
a landfill, as determined by the State in which the
facility is located.''

Sec. 3. The last sentence of section 301(a) of
Executive Order No. 12873 shall read ``In carrying out
his or her functions, the Federal Environmental
Executive shall consult with the Chairman of the
Council on Environmental Quality.''

THE WHITE HOUSE,

March 25, 1996.